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Ole explains Dubai trip

After the Reds take on Reading in the Emirates FA Cup third round at Old Trafford, hoping to extend Ole's winning run as boss to five games, there will be a chance to prepare for the next Premier League outing against Tottenham at Wembley in warm temperatures at the same venue the club visited last year.

“I've got to know them [the players] because I've had plenty of time to speak to them,” Ole said at his press conference on Friday. “But we haven't had plenty of time to train.

”It'll be a time to get some fitness work and work hard with them, so, if any of the players think it's a holiday, they're wrong, because we're there to stick together, work hard on the physical part of it and, of course, think a little bit ahead to the Tottenham game.